The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20

| men, my friend, don't carry your conscience
| put now can you be an anti prohbitionist."
ne SAID: Il amt. Ny knowledge of the thing
Gay py day. among people used to poster and eyict
mas changed my convictions, and am red hot
| prohibition:st'' O
| meht down to Mr. Scott, who did not vote for
prohipltlon and asked him. He said: "I have
issueu as many as twenty-five distress warrants in a
-Aon.h' ana nave issued six in the last eighteen
months, and five were to get people out of houses
because they were obnoxious to the neiehbors
nave ISSUED one single distress warrant for failure
| to pay rent"
| said. You didn't vote for prohibition"
| ne SAD u did not believe it was practicable"
| asked, "What do you think now?''
he sad, II am going to vote and vote for prohi
tion." [Applausel
Mt' nooerts was prohibitionist. He isl square
nian anu an intelligent man. and is running for
e1uneii, wnich is a good sign. Laughter ana ap-
pause He says, my testimony is the same I
iotliy issued two or three distress warrants every
| month, and l have not issued one in twelve
| months" - '"e-'0
,o 9en''enen-and ladies, [laughterl especially
iaules Is there any possible answer to that? Is
'nere any industrial any social ANY economical rev.
olutloh That has been worked since this world be-
gan mat would account for the diminution in this
most vicious and iutolerable of legal enactments2
nave you thought about what distress warrant is?
| have you ever thought about woman being
'uineo out OF her housethe little cottage that COW
| ers her ana Iher children? Can you picture-you
VINO 1--we in comfortable homes filed with ieht and
| warmth ana books and joy-can you think of these
people-human beings our brothers and sisters-the
poor mother brave though her heart is breaking,
nuudllnS her little children about her--and the
ia'ner weak out loving, and loving all the deeper
because he Knows his weakness has brought them
10 tnls want and degradation-and little children
tnose OF whom our Savior sad suffer them to come
unto me and forbid them not" there asking.
will
picture that and then their taking themselves IN
ana the woman putting her hand with undying
iove an faith in the hand of the man she swore to
follow through good and evil report and marching
up and Gown the street-this pitiable procession
sIouen 'ne minimizing streets, by laughing child
rem ana shining windows, looking for a hole where
IKE the foxes, they may hide their poor heads?
MY friends they talk to yop about personal lib
erty that man should have the right to go into
grog shop and see this pitiful procession-now
stopped-paradng up and down our streets again.
They talk to you about the shades of Washington.
Monroe and Jefferson. would not give one happy,
rosy little woman uplifted from that degradation-
harpy again in her home the cricket chirping on her
nearthstone and her children about her knees her
husband redeemed FRI m drink at her side-I would
not give one of them for all the shades of all the
men that ever contended since Cataline conspired
and Caesar fought.
lat the end of this sentence there was tremendous
cheering Men and women waved their handker-
kerchieis, some ofthem standing upl
Mr.. Grady proceeded:
Now, my friends, we are told in opposition to
what have said to you-and they are facts they
are my facts, they always ''get there"-thats the
variety breed now entirely. We are told in oppo-
sition to that, and Mr. Adair will testify and see
Mr.. Tally-I see him tonight out there Che was cry
ing just now but he is smiling now and I see Mr..
Roberts -their books are testimony Go and look
at them 1t means simply this, that where Mr..
Adair, renting to all sorts of reope, ISSUE twenty
distress warrants year ago. he issues one now; it
means that out of every twenty families eyicted
two years ago there are nineteen happy in their
homes tonight. [ApplaUsel And yet we are told
we must vote 10 restore the old order because has
reduced Governor Browns rental column So 0OO
year. Applause
lat tie end of this sentence the scene was almost
indescrbable. Thousands of handkerchiefs waved
as before, men held W. their hats and walking sucks
and whired them in the air. The cheering was
almost deafenng.l
Mr.. Grady resumed speaking.
Ny friends, don't believe that statement to e.
gin with do not believe his rent income is fairly
and permanently diminished five thousand dollars
yearand lift he is my friend and congratulate
both him and myself on the fact that he is able to
stand it. say this in no spirit of erit
cism, but do say if there is law, if there is gov
ernmental theory if there is, mapit please you an
untried experiment that will shelter one honest
woman and two unconscious children in their
homes it is our duty to vote that law and this
ernments duty to enforce ii, though it should cut
it down s25 600 Tremendous applausel And the
reason for that it is not based in communism but in
humanity Ifthe government owes any duty to the
Individual it is that every man, woman and child
that leads an honest life is entitled to food and
shelter; and there is difference to be found be-
tween diminishing the luxury of the rich and rro
tecting the poor in their birthrght it is maniness
and humanity, and good government to let the
rich suffer. [Applausel
THE HOMES OF THE PEOPLE
am going to stick t. the home because it is the
type and center of our city, of our civilization
Prosperous homes mean a prosperous city cherries
homes an unprosperous town From the comforta-
BILE home with its rudy windows and its laughing
children streams the light that illumes every de-
partment of trade or industry, whether the light
comes from the cottage or pa'aee From the
cherries and desolate home comes the chill that
paralyzes every interest worth preserving
When YOU 20 into home, what is the first thing
Won look after? 1t is the hearhstone to sec if there
is fire. The hearthstone is the heart of the home.
and the fire glowing and sparkling, with the little
children gathered about it, rudy faced and happy,
Is to the house what sunshine is 10 Gods flowers II
is about the hearthstone that the family gathers.
There YOU find the wife, the helpmate Of the hus-.
band and his ioy-who has shared his sorrow and
bs Won find the little onag ohariebed m